Brian Walton

2 hours ago, Pluto Gabo said:

I picked up Tonex SE instead.

You bought a better product for less.  Well done.

43 minutes ago, blackcapricorn said:

The coupon works with bundles but according to my calculations the price of bundles is a little better when melda hold 60% off sale.

You don't have to rush in now if you can wait for that.

Math here:

MMixing bundle is MSRP of $710 = $284 with a 60% off

MMixing bundle is MSRP of $710 = $267 with a 50% off and then 25% off of that discounted rate. (counted as $267 instead of $266 since you also have to buy the $1 voucher)

Only way this gets better is if they run a 60% off sale before the coupon expires, which is certainty a gamble.

3 minutes ago, iScream said:

Do you happen to know if this coupon works with bundles?

Yes, confirmed.

On 11/23/2023 at 3:06 PM, Brian Walton said:

Well IF that Melda coupon stacks on top of existing discounts - it could be quite a deal for some....especially those that just got a bunch of credits for guitar/bass recording submissions.

BUMP for confirmation that this Melda 25% off coupon DOES stack on top of current deals at Melda, making this $1 well spend if you are buying something of value over there.

Meh.

1 minute ago, Fleer said:

Get three serials and be WUPless for five years or more

Would be nice it it worked that way but they are enforcing a cut off of when redeemed.  

3 hours ago, MrFigg said:

Right...I know MB stands for MultiBand. Questions is... is that the only difference between, say, MTurboComp and MTurboCompMB. I have both. Guess I can just delete the non-MB version?

Also...I have MReverbMB and also MTurboReverbMB...does the Turbo one do everything the otheer one does or are they very different?

Thanks

There is some proximity stuff in the MReverbMB that I don't know how to do in Turbo (see edit tab below) .  I'd keep both.  

8 minutes ago, Solidos said:

I'm glad and dissappointed at the same time that this bundle is in my opinion not really worth it.

Well IF that Melda coupon stacks on top of existing discounts - it could be quite a deal for some....especially those that just got a bunch of credits for guitar/bass recording submissions.

www.humblebundle.com

FL Studio, UVI & Friends - Hitmaking Bundle (pay what you want and help charity) (humblebundle.com)

If this Melda 25% off (at the $1 tier) stacks with the current discounts......?

It doesn't even look pretty, hard pass.

2 minutes ago, mettelus said:

The days have been creeping by lately... I thought that had already expired but it has 5 days left!

They ended up adding a few more days to it about a day before it was supposed to end.

1 hour ago, balinas said:

Out of all the Black market deals out there, this one for the upcoming Rebelle 7 pro at such a reduced price is the one that interested me the most. 
 

I had occasionally looked for a deal on Rebelle6, but when a pre-order Rebelle 7 pro presented itself this morning, I did jump on it!  Yes, I will need to wait for three weeks till the release date, but I don’t think I will find a better entry into the Rebelle world than this. 
 

and yes, I split my hobbies into the recording of musical notes and the recording of the swipes of my paint brush!  

Painter 2023 at Humble Bundle is also $30.

21 minutes ago, Craig Fowler said:

This is a good point, esp. if you're running ToneX in standalone.

I'm very much a 'guitar straight into amp' kind of player, and for me ToneX feels like a big step up from other 'sims' (though Kuassa will never lose its place in my heart!). 

I bought Max a couple of weeks ago and have been really impressed, but SE would have been better for me because I'm not using many of the IK models. I have lucked out and bought half a dozen of the tonejunkie capture packs at 94% off, as well as one from Amalgam. I'll probably also pick up one or two of Matt Figg's packs at some point.

The big downside of ToneX is that --in true IK fashion-- you have a product that's pretty amazing paired with a GUI that seems to have been designed by a blind man having a slushie freeze. There's nothing intuitive about it, no batch import of captures from 3rd party vendors, and all kinds of pop-up menus for things that should be front and centre. 

You can batch import presets from 3rd party vendors, by selecting them in the windows explorer after you do the right click and import presets (which in and of itself isn't 100% obvious.  

I've imported 75+ in one click before so know it works.

25 minutes ago, Clint Martin said:

The problem I have had with other capture programs (Tonocracy and NAM) is that unless I find exactly what I'm looking for, there isn't really a great way to fix it without having access to the amp or model itself.

Maybe ToneX works better? In the other programs if I adjust the low, mid, or high controls the capture can get pretty funky and unnatural sounding.

I'm afraid it's as endless as looking for the perfect IR but for $39 it may be worth trying.

Run the free version and see what you think.  (maybe look for a free Amalgam Audio capture on ToneNet in an amp style you like as a test)

I had the same fear with Tonex, but the EQs are just like what happens in a recording studio...eq after your "recorded" tone hit the board.  If you have done real amp recording before you have an idea of what to expect from the MIC.  

Now if the gain structure of a preset isn't want you are looking for, the gain knob more or less feels like increasing or decreasing the signal going into the amp.  So yes it does distort or clean up but it doesn't have the same interaction between EQ and gain settings like you find on some amps.  There is some hunt involved, but if there is stuff that sounds as authentic as it gets for a digital emulation of it.

4 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:

More than 80GB the complete library isnt it? i saw that somewhere

Not that bad.

Meldway itself is 

The other piano is under 4GIG

And then there is an essential download, don't remember what it is, but pretty sure it is more like 3 GIG

5 minutes ago, GoncaloL said:

It was 39$ 3 months ago from W.A Productions.

i didnt bought then, wasnt sure about the sounds, and the interface looks a little cluncky

but 24€ is really cheap….about the sounds.. is anybody that has this end up using those sounds? 

That's true (I even posted about - woops), though buying straight from Melda here you can also potentially get discounts if new to the newsletter and grab a referral code, with for a new users makes this thing almost free.

I've mentioned it elsewhere, the Meldway Grand is an amazing piano that alone is easily worth it if you have the HD space.

8 hours ago, JT3Jon said:

Is a price drop like this common enough to wait for 2024? Trying to budget my BF spending 

Best I've seen before this was $50 after any into pricing, etc.  Seems unlikely it will go to $26 in any kind of reasonable amount of time again.

47 minutes ago, telecode 101 said:

I don't think so. These aren't sims. They are sort of captures in time of an  amp and whatever effect (except reverb -- IIRC, it doesn't do time effects very well). I sort of see this as good for people in cover bands and people who like famous traditional electric  guitar sounds. For me,  I am into the werido Fripp/Eno thing where you try to make a guitar sound very  weird and synthy... so for me, AT5 is still my go to tool for that. To play around in an all encompassing virtual environment of simed amps and effects and go in there and see what happens when you mix marshalls, rolands, and  10 delays.

 

 

Well the amp "sim" part - where the device is simulating an amplifier (well amp - speaker - mic in this case) is in fact the best I've heard/felt.  

The effects Fripp/Eno use are not "amps or amp sims" to get the weird stuff (yes, they have both used Amps and Amp sims as part of the rig over the years).  So to the point/question - yes, ToneX is arguably the best amp sim on the market - but as you point out one needs to be aware it isn't a modeler that gives you the same Amp EQ tone stack when making adjustments or have the full gain range of an amp in a single profile.   But for all intents and purposes, it is simulating the sound and feel of an amplifier being recorded with a speaker and microphone(s).

Once can easily use ToneX and add effects before and after it to make the crazy stuff and I find it easier to do that than a traditional amp - which is going to be limited where you put an effect "after" the speaker/mic.  (note in the box you could disable cab sim in Tonex, run the IR in another loader to also put effects between those points as well).  

I'm not going to call it the end all be all, because eventually I'm sure someone is going to make something that better captures the knob interactions, gain range, as well as more accurate representation of harmonics, decay, etc and interaction with the tone and volume knobs in addition to figuring out how to get latency below 3ms.  Which seems imperceivable to most, but when you AB all this with playing a Trainwreck - there is a difference in how the amp responds and how ToneX does.  That said, so few people get to experience something of that caliber, I can tell you that ToneX is still amazing and getting something that close to the sound in the box (and pedal) is a wonderful thing.  

8 minutes ago, jngnz said:

I'm thinking about getting this instead of more Nembrini and NeuralDSP stuff because I keep hearing it's basically the end of all amp sims.

Do I need MAX? Why/why not? I play guitar and bass. Badly.

Don't need max, but be prepared to buy some 3rd party pack.

SE version gets you unlimited user downloads (which one includes samples from a number of the 3rd party packs.  

Honestly SE and some tonenet hunting provides a pretty crazy amount of good tone options.  Advantages of 3rd party is quality of capture combined will full gain range of the amp.

There IS some of this on tonenet, but may or may not be for the amps you are most interested in.

At this price, it is a no brainer if you simply enjoy playing.

11 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

So advanced, complex, and hard on the eyes that I don't even use the free ones I've installed.

A G.U.I. for idiots update is needed for sure.  One without a overly complex appearance.  Maybe they should find someone less smart than themselves to design the next G.U.I. and make it more humane.

You have to buy the paid versions to get that.

4 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

A lot of their products are over 7 years old and the graphics show how dated they are.

You might want to do some more research.  They make some of the most advanced plugins on the market and they just had an update today and if history is any indicator, there will be yet another update shortly again.

The UI is simplistic but fully resizable and generally speaking this cuts down on cpu consumption.

29 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

With regard to iLok, I already use it and I'm only going to use effects like this on my main DAW PC. But couldn't you just create another account for an additional computer if it's an issue? Otherwise, my reason for installing it is that Slate very consistently delivers excellent quality (FTR, I am friends with Steven, but I wouldn't say/write that it if I didn't mean it; I'm friends with a bunch of devs whose libraries and plugins I don't use -- and the reality is, I use every devs competitors products, it's just reality)  and it's worth installing for me because different saturators have different characters. If I compare it to others and it doesn't stand up, I'll just delete it. But, IMO, it's worth trying. Also, I already have other Slate plugins, so I already use their installer. 

I also use iLok, but one install is problematic for me.  I have two iLoks (and certainly prefer a min of 3 installs).  Need the authorizations in the same account as I'm not about to buy a crazy number of plugins twice.  

I certainly agree with having more than 1 saturator.  But everyone is going to have different stuff.  I find that there are a few that get installed and have never made it to a project adn keeping track of them and uninstalling is more hassle than the freebie was worse.  

This was simply in response to a "why not."  And for me, these were my reasons on this one.  I do like Slate's Air plugin and it gets used.

15 hours ago, PavlovsCat said:

I have so many saturation plugins at this point,  I think I can stop buying anymore unless something really amazes me. So, another freebie...Why not? 

List of reasons

1) ilok - guessing this is like "Air" where they only give you 1 seat

2) another plugin to scan

3)  Function covered by something else

4) More clutter in the VST folder

5)  I'll never actually use it other than to open it for the first time

6) revisiting projects in the future if I accidentally do use it becomes a hassle

7)  Think Slate uses a manager / not just an individual installer?  

Just now, MrFigg said:

Hmmm...all my licenses for individual plugins as well as bundles are still showing. I just figured I wouldn't be able to transfer them seeing as how they were used to bring down the price of the bundles.

They were there for about a month or so, then all disappeared into one singular MComplete file

1 minute ago, MrFigg said:

Curious. If you already have MComplete then you're guaranteed any new plugins they make for free. What're you going to do with the credits you're accumulating?

Thought they just wanted guitars and basses. Think I submitted 6 or 7 different guitars and one bass.

It was more about making sure if this becomes some useful playground of sounds, that I'd have access to my guitars (and bass) in there.  

Honestly don't think you can really do anything with credits once you have MComplete, which one could argue isn't fair in the event you would want to transfer a purchase to someone else.  In fact, before I got MComplete I actually had a duplicate of a plugin.  Once I got MCOmplete, it removed all my licenses other than MComplete.   Not complaining at this point as I never thought I'd be able to get MComplete, and with the transfer costs - it seems like it would be an unlikely sell of non-complete items to someone else.

And by instruments, I meant guitar and basses.